best vodka - have your say

absolut for me

stolly is nice as well

Smirnoff Blue label


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grey goose

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finlandia

There's very little difference between any of the brands.

That's the point of vodka. Pure ethanol plus water.

88%

Russian Standard a recent adman's invention. You need authentic old Russian or Polish - none of this newfangled crap. They've probably got lots of failed communist in them. I've had some interesting times with Stoly. In 5 years time it will be a health cure for reducing blood cholesterol. Buy now!

Sorry egg, i have tasted every vodka going. Tried everything and never wanted to pay the prices but abs/smirn are the best.

I really need to actually talk to someone that has tasted blue smirnoff....

smirnoff blue is jus a really strong version of red

blue smirnoff is too strong imo

it just simply **ks you up

Finnish stuff is OK - if overpriced.

BTW - YOU'RE ALL FINNNISH!

Good man d13

Vodka is may favourite sip so have moved onto blue smirnoff.

Its just the people that claim etc...

smirnoff is just the most known n popular, nothing else good abt it,

IS

Until recently I made neutral grain spirit for a living.

This was watered down and a fancy label applied.

They call this vodka.

If the spirit is almost pure ethanol, which any EU produced spirit will be, then the only difference between vodkas is the water and I wouldn't pay £10 a bottle extra for Evian over Buxton.

Zubrowka bison grass vodka from Poland has a unique taste. Of Bison grass.

Tried Grey Goose the other week and while it was very clean didn't really get the hype.

ghost

i was trying to remember that one

has it got a green label?

if so its bloody lovely that stuff

I am not into labels at all, i always go for the value. betfarian etc....

Smirn Blue hits the spot early, then i can go to bed early.

egg, i have gone the wussian woute.


just post it when its ready, i am a beta tester !!

:^0

;)

Wasnt Zubrowka a white label with gold edges ?

Zubrowka bison grass is different because it has some sort of flavour.

Get real gents. The only thing we have to calculate is the stand-off between alcohol content and price.

Now I must chase the devil's herd in the sky. Join me later.

balls bodil

i never thought i would ever get interested in how vodka tasted.....

Green label with a bison on it. Years ago it had a darker label, lovely stuff. You can drink it straight, from the bottle.

IS

There was a recent blind tasting in the Telegraph.

3 "experts".

Best tasting vodka: GLEN'S

£7 a bottle.

I'm not joking.

i love apple vodka

nice with ice, a slice of lime and a dash of lemonade

not too much though

had a few good nights on glens back in the day

:)

You cant sip vodka, i would love too.

I have been paying £16+ for blue label smifn every 3 weeks for 3 years now :( ;)

I am open to vodka as it is my wine

ta egg

I like the liquorish flavoured **t that the Swedes drink, other than that, I can't really tell the difference.

lol asda do blue label for £13.xx, dno why ur paying £16 lol

IS - I've never yet crumpled on frozen vodka drinking with anyone. Lots of others got really amusing stories apparently. God help the beast in me.

I like to think i know or have tried most of the vodkas


the cheap ones are good for parties and non drinkers etc

I dont often surrender to labels but blue or black smirnoff taste nice , too my hate.

Absolute is nice but behind smirnoff red.

Went to Russia when it was still communist, people would pass a bottle round in a circle before breakfast. Never really understood alcohol as a pure drug until then. Flying for eight hours.

Think it was Moskovskaya in the hotels and home made hooch for everybody else, gorby was trying to stop the addiction by cutting off supplies. Didn't work too well, everybody was wasted, permanently.

good man ghost, vodka was their drug in the past....


no different to the uk, but they used something else.

Smirnoff Blue is a killer. I drunk a bottle when I was a student and accidentally ended up back with my ex. Took me weeks of diplomacy to extract myself from the relationship again.

for any hard core drinkers

anyone ever tried wray and nephew

me and a group of mates tried it once as it was the strongest drink on the wetherspoons menu (obviously back in the day)

out of 6, 1 made it home

horrendous stuff

D13, label name ?

HM, you are lucky you remembered

W&n is the strongest rum you can get in the UK (I think)

Evil hangover caused by contamination with congeners.

lol my mate once bought all of us double shot of tht 60% rum or something at whetherspoons
we all got drunk tht night lol.

I'm getting old, used to love getting drunk but now it lasts the next day which defeats the 4 hours of fun the night b4.......

Old?

Just remembered i should not even mention the word absinthe :(

this stuff was worse than absynthe

37

I used to drink, wake up rough but now it lasts over 24 hrs..... (hangover)

A young Dylan.

BBC4.

37? Years of horror ahead of you. I'll say no more.

I feel near death more than ahead, please help.

At my age only look forward to sporting events at the moment.

Probably because i have gone to all newbs/chelts meetings before xmas......

Problem in love, married it twas the same :D

The problem with sporting events is that they've even managed to cheapen them with frequency. Kill half the organizers, audience, players and sponsors and all will be well.

Parliament for me, or Neminoff.

Just been looking for another one that we drank then that people might like. It's Okhotnichya?, by Stolichnaya. Hunter's vodka, got grass in it, almost like a light brandy. Not sure how widespread it is now.

Absinthe and me are finished, that is the one drink you must know where to stop, and sometimes I don't. at 44 it gets worse, believe me.

I'm off to drink some Danzka lemon , good in small doses only.

Absinthe is just like ouzo since they removed the interesting bits from it. Your imaginiation will supply the missing bits.

Thujone?

Bodil is correct.

From wormwood.

some geezer gave me a shot of toffee vodka the other day, i would imagine you could have some "interesting" experiences with a few bottles of that if their were some "ladies" around.

never really got into the habit of drinking neat vodka, has to be ice cold of course.

i tend to buy blue label.

I suppose it all depends if you want to be dead, dying, hallucinating, confused, happy or sober.

Difficult. In truth, I've never found the answer. I expect the answer will find me. But not without an unpleasant scene.

I remember you now.

I used to work in Saudi and learned the art of distilling booze whilst I was over there. No grains, just sugar, water, and yeast. Let it ferment then put it through a still 4 times. If you did it right you got something that was nigh on 90% alcohol. Cut it with water 50/50 and you had a nice drink (with mixer)...still make it on the odd occasion when the fancy takes me...happy days.

There's a recent book (New Scientist reviewed past couple of weeks) that suggests that aggriculture was established just to provide grains for fermentation. No desire for drink and we'd all still be hunter-gatherers. Happy days.

One day we will have a sipping time.


me egg,mex, hrh,ghost,red & d13 will have a sipping contest.

I drink a couple fo bottles of red Smurf a weekm but my vote goes to Grey Goose.

The was a sparkling English vod a few years ago that was gr8 that disappeared

Drink!

RR, you are welcome to the gang but goose= whiskey imo

Fkin' hell, was that Louis?

Thanks for Invite Ibrahima

Can i ring my Irn Bru mixer after the sipping part finishes?

Interesting. And up and crowed the blood-red**....